Americans use to play Rugby. Or our version of Rugby. We changed the rules slightly, made it more 'Murican, called it Football (for whatever reason), but all in all it was Rugby just the same.

One problem though.

Americans play to WIN godammit. In the 1905 season of 'Murica Rugby, 18 players ******* DIED. 159 were serious injured. Not "walk it off" injured. We're talking limbs mangled, drinking out of a sippy cup in a wheelchair injured.

Football was almost made illegal. Rugby all over the world was considered a gentleman's game. In America is a was a ************* BLOOD SPORT.

To save our version of Rugby, a few things were added to the game. Helmets, body armor, and most importantly- the forward pass. Thus severing any remaining ties to traditional Rugby and evolving Football into a sport of its own.
A sport no longer played by men, but by blood thirsty psychopaths, who would gladly murder each other over an inflated stitch of pigskin... if their armor plating didn't stop them.

No source, retarded American's thumbing this **** up. Everyone else who wants to be a retarded American thumbing this **** up as well. This comment will get thumbed down because I said something against something that made American's look less like pussies..

Your reading comprehension is not the greatest.
I noted America adapted rugby in my first paragraph. However, it was still recognizable as a rugby variant until several rules and equipment changes were introduced to make the sport safer and completing the evolution from Rugby to Football.

You're still refusing to source me the information where you attain this knowledge on.. Also i duly noted the adaptation since I requested the source on "this version of rugby you had"
I highly doubt it my reading comprehension we should be judging here.

...dude.
rule number one in rugby was to never tackle with the head.
I can BET in 1905 'Muricans tackled with their head.
consider the following:
an injury doesn't make you a badass nor does it make you a man.
Victory amongst the other teams/men makes you a man, and a badass.

In American and especially Canada, we play hockey on the ice, with a solid rubber puck.
It is also one of our most violent sports, and the only sport outside of boxing where fighting isn't only allowed, but encouraged.

I play Second Row myself, and really, if you hold on to the prop's upper thigh, you're doing it wrong, no need to go near their junk, just past it. Lack of knowledge also demonstrated by the description of a ruck - it isn't everyone scrambling for the ball, it's the two sides trying to push one another over and off the ball, meaning there's only the potential for balls-in-face if it collapses or you made the tackle.

Well thats the way we were taught to play second row at school, and I was also describing a tackle rather than a ruck in the "balls-to-face" scenario. Maybe in professional leagues of rugby this isnt too much of a problem, but in amateur play you will almost certainly end up with contact with someone elses balls at one point or another. Either way I've quit rugby now and I'm never ever going back.

Well usually one person tackles the player with the ball and they go to ground. Then another 4 or 5 blokes basically jump on top, then the ref gives it about 10 seconds to get the ball out, and if not a ruck is formed. I'm pretty sure thats how it works, isnt it?

Considering the pretty much the entirety of western Europe gave America it's influences and start, I don't mind them much.

It's stupid to dismiss a well information from a country that we share most in common with; without it, we would be stuck with redundant drivel. We learn Shakespeare not because he was from Europe, but because he did a lot to contribute to the English language which we speak in America.

Considering they basically developed English into what it is, they are the ones speaking and spelling it "correctly", and America is the one who's simplified it.

Britain and the rest of Europe aren't any more resentful to us than we are to them. If anything, we get the most butthurt over their fun little pokings when it's not even that big of a deal. We make fun of the Europeans all the time, and they're usually good sports about it.

The US is nothing but a mush pot. It's pretty hard to call yourself an American when you can't handle blowback from your own ancestors.

The guy just said getting hit can be the physical equivalent of getting in a car crash. You just implied that you prefer colliding with a car multiple times for 80 minutes with no protection if given short breaks.

The manliest sport in my opinion is hockey no doubt. Try taking a puck to the face at 90 miles an hour knock out a couple teeth and go out on the next line shift. And when you get checked at high speeds you land on solid ice. And you can actually fight without the refs doing anything. Also the schedules are usually a game a day. I saw a video of a goalie getting cut by skates in his jugular. Its ******* dangerous. More dangerous than football, soccer and rugby.

I personally know a bunch of the capitals because when they might have played in the AHL with Hershey. I had dinner with Jay Beagal, Braden Holtby and Alex Giroux and all them. Chris Bourque even. And if Rangers step up a bit, they might face the capitals in the playoffs.

I know almost every player on the blue jackets. Cause my neighbor manages money for a lot of the players. Thats how i met rick and before he got traded whenever he came over i used to say hi and we talked for awhile. For my birthday he signed my rangers jersey.

Nice. I got an Eric Fehr autographed bears jersey, Sami Lepisto autographed bears jersey, and a Chris Bourque Capitals jersey also autographed. And a Tyler Sloan stick but no one likes Sloan.... Do you follow AHL aswell?

I was there! It was ******* crazy! Some of the things the Mayans did without technology amazes me, like the pyramid that on the longest and shortest day of the year, a snake made of sunlight seems to be going down the 365 steps. But they themselves, were also ******* crazy. Maybe it was the cocoa leaf.

Actually the winner gets sacrificed because the game is considered more of a religious ceremony then a game. Also the Mayans believed that when you get sacrificed, you go to live with the gods.. So why would the losers get sacrificed and not the winners?

Rugby is a rough game, but Football involves bigger players. The average hit impact in Rugby is measured in about 15-16 hundred pounds of force, while on average in the NFL it's over 4500, a very big difference. It's like getting hit with a coke machine with ******* legs..

If I dare to interject, the whole reason that football players hit harder is the way they hit because of, first and foremost, the nature of the collisions; highspeed impacts that are usually "hits" instead of "tackles"... I rugby you cant just "hit" someone because without equipment you have better balance and evasion ability, so in rugby you usually have to grapple the *********** to the ground. Also, even though linebackers are much bigger than your average professional rugby players, they are completely different athletes. Linebackers rely on power, whilst rugby players, even fronts, need to have intense muscle and cardiovascular endurance because unlike football, the game doesnt stop every 10 seconds. People describe rugby as the combination of american football, soocer (football for you pissy brit fags) and basketball. The endurance of football, the physical strength and physicality of american football, and the hand skill of basketball.

yes but the reason they are able to record higher hits is the fact they have so much more protective clothing. If you gave rugby players all the gear american football players had they would be hitting at the same sort of force

Yes I'd much rather be run over by a coke machine on legs wearing that lovely
protective armor than use my plain body to stop an averaged size profesional
rugby player.

And american football players are bigger? Are you physically stupid or something?
p.s fatter does not mean bigger. The player may be able to build up more momentum
but because he's packing 20 Mc Donalds big macs under his shirt he'll never reach the speed to be usefull

You must be a little brain dead. Line backers and Defensive ends are lean as **** , and are fast. Ray Lewis or Brian Urlacher are made of pure muscle. They hit like trucks. Defensive tackles are fat but fast and getting hit by 340-400 pounds going damn fast hurts.

You've never worn that "armor" before obviously, because although it DOES keep your chest from collapsing, it DOES NOT protect you from to concussive force. Saying getting hit in football doesn't hurt because you're wearing pads is like saying standing next to a grenade when it goes off wouldn't hurt if you were wearing a bulletproof vest.

I don't really give a **** . I was only joking about about the fact most rugby players have some disfigurement from the game and if you watch a game blood is always spilled. I'm not saying which is better.

He was referring to the countless rules and regulations regarding safety and whatnot and the layers of padding on american football plays where as in rugby there are little to no pads and little to no rules.

Personally I don't care for either sport (I'm more of a hockey man myself), I just had a rugby give I wanted to post. I probably could have worded that reply better. I see now that it made me seem like a rather large arse.